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Trooper Cooper preps for a potential gunfight. He gets a call at a residence where a man says he is armed with hostages. Will Cooper and the fellow troopers make it in time to alleviate the dangerous situation?
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Photograph by PSG Films/ Jason McConnehey

Published March 10, 2013

Both
sports and subsistence hunters in Alaska must follow strict requirements for
salvaging meat from their kills. The law says “all edible meat” must be taken
and stipulates that this includes the meat between the ribs and attached to the
bones of the neck.

In the 1800’s,
Ahtna Athabaskan Natives occupied most of the upper Copper Valley. “Ahtna” is
the Athabaskan name for the Copper River.

Most of
the early settlements in the upper Copper Valley were either fish camps along
the river or hunting and trapping camps in the uplands.

Early
Native residents in the upper Copper Valley were divided into clans. Each group
had its own areas for hunting, fishing and berry picking.

Early Christians were mistaken for cannibals by
some Romans, who misunderstood the sacrament of Eucharist where under the
appearances of bread and wine, Christians eat the body and blood of Christ.

The construction of the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline in 1971 brought great social and economic impact to the Copper Valley. Multiple
small settlements were built to house the pipeline workers and their families,
many of whom remained after construction was completed.

Copper
Valley’s climate is sub-arctic continental climate, with long cold winters and
relatively warm summers. Winter temperatures can reach as low as -65, and as
high as 90 degrees in the summer.

Copper
Valley receives about 48 inches of snow every year. Snow is on the ground an
average of 180 days every year.

Although
there are just under 500 residents, Glennallen is the supply hub of the Copper
River region. Local businesses provide area residents and Glenn Highway traffic
with supplies, services, schools, and medical care.

The
area of Glennallen has historically been occupied by the Ahtna. Today, though,
Glennallen is a non-Native community.

New
ice is generally stronger: four inches of clear, newly‑formed ice may support
one person on foot, but a foot or more of old, partially‑thawed ice may not.

Ice rarely freezes uniformly.It may be as much as a foot thick
in one location and only an inch or two thick a few feet away.

Alaska
has chiefly the barren-ground subspecies of caribou (Rangifer tarandus
granti), as well as one small herd of woodland caribou, (R.t. caribou).
The woodland caribou, called the Chisana herd, moves into Canada in the
Wrangell-St. Elias area of Southcentral Alaska.

Caribou have large,
concave hoofs that spread widely. These support the animal in snow and soft
tundra. A caribou’s feet also function as paddles when it swims.

Newborn
caribou calves weigh an average of 13 pounds, and can double their weight in
10-15 days. Their hair color ranges from dark brown to reddish brown.